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7 To prove that in the Fifth Election District in said coun- ty the Officers of Registration did not not meet and sit on the days prescribed by law, whereby many persons were pre- vented from applying for registration and consequently pre- vented from voting, who would have voted at the election held in said county on the 7th of November, 18655, for the said John R. Franklin for Circuit Judge of the Twelfth Ju- dicial Circuit of Maryland, the following witnesses are pro- posed to be examined: Thomas H. Fitzgerald, John Cantwell, Isaac Gittens. To prove that the Officers of Registration in the several districts in said county received applications for registration and registered voters on days other than those prescribed by law, and after the time when by the law they were required to correct and finally close the list, the following witnesses are proposed to be examined: Thomas S. Hodson, William Smith, John W. Humph- reys, Samuel C. Gittens, Isaac Gittens, David Shockley, Richard D. Wallace. That in Election Districts, Numbers Five, Eight, Ten, Eleven, in said county, the several papers purporting to be lists of the qualified voters in said several districts, and filed with the Judges of Election, are vague, uncertain, insuffi- cient and void, and there was no legal or sufficient evidence before the Judges of Election in said districts of any legal registration of voters therein; and to prove the conduct of said Judges of Election, and the circumstances attending the election held by them on the 7th of November, 1865, it is proposed to examine the following witnesses: Littleton R. Polk, George S. Parsons, William E. Jones, Josiah W. Pennel, Isaac D. Jones, J. W. Crisfield. To prove that the conduct of the Officers of Registration in the several districts in said county was illegal and arbi- trary, whereby competent voters were prevented from making application for registration, and many who did apply were wantonly and without due trial, proof or legal cause, as re- quired by law, disfranchised; and such persons, but for such illegal and arbitrary conduct, would have presented them- selves for registration, were entitled to have been registered, and would have voted at the election for Circuit Judge, held in said county on the 7th day of November last, for the said John R. Franklin; and further, that many of the entries on the books of said pretended Registration,which were de- posited with the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Somerset |
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